Australian Academy of Sciences Fellows 2014

[AstralTraveller (David)]

AAS Media release (NB these are not Knights or Dames):

Australian science leaders elected to Academy Fellowship

The Australian Academy of Science today announced the election of 21 leaders in Australian science to its Fellowship, including those working on how galaxies and stars are formed, epilepsy prevention and quantum teleportation.
The new Fellows have been elected for their outstanding contributions to and application of scientific research.

Academy President Suzanne Cory congratulated all of the new Fellows for their stellar achievements and contributions to advancing the sum of human knowledge.
“All of these scientists are doing amazing and significant work in their chosen fields – they are the Olympic athletes of science,” she said.

Every year the Academy honours the work of Australia’s leading scientists with election to its Fellowship, which now numbers 481.

New Fellows will be formally admitted to the Academy at its annual flagship event, Science at the Shine Dome, in Canberra this May, where they will make short presentations about their work.
Following is a complete list of the new Fellows (in alphabetical order). Please contact the media officer (below) if you wish to arrange interviews.

Professor Rose Amal FAA FTSE
School of Chemical Engineering, University of New South Wales
Elected for her outstanding contributions to photocatalysis and leadership in harnessing solar energy to purify water and generate Hydrogen 2.


Professor Hans Bachor AM FAA
Australian National University
Elected for his pioneering work in quantum optics, which has opened new paths for quantum computing and quantum optical communication technologies.


Professor John Bowman FAA
School of Biological Studies, Monash University
Elected for his highly original discoveries that have revealed the genetic basis of three fundamental processes in plant development.


Professor Alan Carey FAA
Mathematical Sciences Institute, Australian National University
Elected for his original research in several distinct areas of pure mathematics, particularly in infinite dimensional groups and their application to quantum field theory.

Professor Georgia Chenevix-Trench FAA
Cancer Genetics, Queensland Institute of Medical Research Berghofer
Elected for her work on the genetics of breast, ovarian and other cancers, including showing that mutations in the ATM gene confer moderate risks for breast cancer.


Professor Michelle Coote FAA
Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University
Elected for developing and applying accurate computational chemistry for modelling radical polymerization processes.


Professor Matthew England FAA
Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales
Elected for his work on modelling the Southern Ocean and deep ocean ventilation, and its application to climate models.


Dr Elizabeth Jean Finnegan FAA
CSIRO Plant Industry, CSIRO
Elected for her world leading research on plant gene expression, including cloning the first plant DNA methyltransferase and the demonstration that DNA methylation is essential for normal plant development.


Professor Peter Gill FAA
Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University
Elected for his fundamental and applied research in quantum chemistry, the discipline in which the laws of quantum mechanics are applied to understand and predict molecular behaviour.


Professor Barbara Howlett FAA
School of Botany, University of Melbourne
Elected for her research in fungal plant pathology, which has improved understanding of disease resistance and had a major impact on the Australian canola industry.


Professor Lisa Kewley FAA
Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University
Elected for her fundamental advances in understanding of the history of the universe, particularly star and galaxy formation.


Professor Hanna Kokko FAA
Research School of Biology, Australian National University
Elected for her significant contributions to ecology and evolutionary biology using novel mathematic methods.


Ms Catherine Livingstone AO FAA FTSE
Chair, Telstra
Elected for championing science and technology and the critical role they play in the future development of Australia, and for services to the Australian Academy of Science.
ProfessorAngel Lopez FAA
Centre for Cancer Biology, SA Pathology, Institute of Medical & Veterinary Science
Elected for his work on growth factors, which has paved the way for the development of drugs for the treatment of some inflammatory diseases and certain types of leukaemia.


Professor Ivan Marusic FAA
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne
Elected for his contributions to fluid mechanics, most notably advancing our understanding of wall-bounded turbulent flows.


Professor John Miners FAA
Clinical Pharmacology, Flinders University and Flinders Medical Centre
Elected for his pioneering work to establish drug metabolism as a predictive science that underpins both preclinical drug development and the clinical use of drugs.


Professor Craig Moritz FAA
Research School of Biology, Australian National University
Elected for his work to improve our understanding of evolutionary biology, particularly how new species arise and develop in different contexts.


Professor Margaret Reid FAA
CAOUS Centre, Swinburne University of Technology
Elected for her pioneering work in new fundamental tests of quantum theory, including teleportation and cryptography.


Professor Jamie Rossjohn FAA
School of Biomedical Sciences, Monash University
Elected for his research into the structural basis for T cell recognition of foreign antigens, which has had a profound impact on our understanding of immune recognition, particularly in autoimmunity and drug and food hypersensitivities.


Professor Ingrid Scheffer FAA
University of Melbourne and Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Elected for her ground-breaking research into the genetic causes of epilepsy and related disorders, which has led to better prevention for these disorders and significant advances in diagnosis and therapy.


Professor George Willis FAA
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Newcastle
Elected for his innovation in diverse fields of mathematics, including insights into locally compact groups and fundamental concepts such as the scale function and flatness.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Awesome and congratulations to them all

...and all becoming members of one of many distinguished scientific bodies internationally who officially have these and these fundamental understandings

Always good to remember this when we impart the deserved recognition becoming fellows of such institutions attracts

Mike

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Awesome and congratulations to them all

...and all becoming members of one of many distinguished scientific bodies internationally who officially have these and these fundamental understandings

Always good to remember this when we impart the deserved recognition becoming fellows of such institutions attracts

Mike

Subtle.